Open AccessAppropriateness of colorectal cancer screening: appraisal of evidence by experts
Author(s) -
Isabelle PeytremannBridevaux,
Anne-Melody Silaghi,
JohnPaul Vader,
Florian Froehlich,
JeanJacques Gonvers,
Bernard Burnand
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal for quality in health care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1464-3677
pISSN - 1353-4505
DOI - 10.1093/intqhc/mzl005
Subject(s) - concordance , medicine , colonoscopy , evidence based medicine , judgement , kappa , cohen's kappa , systematic review , medline , family medicine , evidence based practice , critical appraisal , appropriateness criteria , actuarial science , medical physics , colorectal cancer , alternative medicine , statistics , pathology , radiology , cancer , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , political science , law , business
. To evaluate how the level of evidence perceived by an international panel of experts was concordant with the level of evidence found in the literature, to compare experts perceived level of evidence to their appropriateness scores, and to compare appropriateness criteria for colonoscopy between experts and an evidence-based approach.